Re: Clarifying and Documenting Licensing Requirements and Best Practices in Ubuntu

2025-01-24 Thread Simon Chopin
i, On mer. 22 janv. 2025 19:39:04, Simon Quigley wrote: > Hi Simon, > > On 1/22/25 04:51 AM, Simon Chopin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > On mer. 22 janv. 2025 01:03:23, Simon Quigley wrote: > > [snip] > >> When you should (not) rewrite a copyright file to use DEP-5 > >>

Re: Clarifying and Documenting Licensing Requirements and Best Practices in Ubuntu

2025-01-22 Thread Erich Eickmeyer
On Wed, 2025-01-22 at 19:44 +, Simon Quigley wrote: > Hi Erich, > > On 1/21/25 07:27 PM, Erich Eickmeyer wrote: > [snip] > > Just throwing this in there additionally, with regards to images. > > > > Some images do not meet the threshold of originality[1] that is > > required in order to claim

Re: Clarifying and Documenting Licensing Requirements and Best Practices in Ubuntu

2025-01-22 Thread Simon Quigley
Hi Erich, On 1/21/25 07:27 PM, Erich Eickmeyer wrote: [snip] Just throwing this in there additionally, with regards to images. Some images do not meet the threshold of originality[1] that is required in order to claim copyright on an image, such as those that only contain simple text and shapes

Re: Clarifying and Documenting Licensing Requirements and Best Practices in Ubuntu

2025-01-22 Thread Simon Quigley
Hey Aaron! On 1/21/25 07:55 PM, Aaron Rainbolt wrote: [snip] Some corrections on some of the stuff with image copyright: * There are two separate issues here, the issue of copyrighted images themselves, and the issue of copyrighted color profiles. The tl;dr: is that both are stored in the

Re: Clarifying and Documenting Licensing Requirements and Best Practices in Ubuntu

2025-01-22 Thread Simon Quigley
Hi Simon, On 1/22/25 04:51 AM, Simon Chopin wrote: Hi, On mer. 22 janv. 2025 01:03:23, Simon Quigley wrote: [snip] When you should (not) rewrite a copyright file to use DEP-5 +++ You **should** rewrite a copyright file to use DEP-5 if:

RE: Clarifying and Documenting Licensing Requirements and Best Practices in Ubuntu

2025-01-22 Thread Simon Chopin
Hi, On mer. 22 janv. 2025 01:03:23, Simon Quigley wrote: [snip] > When you should (not) rewrite a copyright file to use DEP-5 > +++ > > You **should** rewrite a copyright file to use DEP-5 if: > > * you are updating to a new upstream version

Re: Clarifying and Documenting Licensing Requirements and Best Practices in Ubuntu

2025-01-21 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 01:03:23 + Simon Quigley wrote: > Hello, > > I have been working on a general effort to improve the new packaging > guide[1]. As a general note, please consider joining me. > > As part of this effort, with the help of Aaron Rainbolt[2], I have > written an initial, rough

Re: Clarifying and Documenting Licensing Requirements and Best Practices in Ubuntu

2025-01-21 Thread Erich Eickmeyer
On Wed, 2025-01-22 at 01:03 +, Simon Quigley wrote: > Hello, > > I have been working on a general effort to improve the new packaging > guide[1]. As a general note, please consider joining me. > > As part of this effort, with the help of Aaron Rainbolt[2], I have > written an initial, rough d

Clarifying and Documenting Licensing Requirements and Best Practices in Ubuntu

2025-01-21 Thread Simon Quigley
Hello, I have been working on a general effort to improve the new packaging guide[1]. As a general note, please consider joining me. As part of this effort, with the help of Aaron Rainbolt[2], I have written an initial, rough draft of best practices for licensing packages in Ubuntu. This is b